3.25.2011

It looks like an absolute cluttered, chaotic mess doesn't it? Well it is. I have an obsession with magnets. Words, pictures, letters. I've got it all. But I'm not here to tell you about my magnets. Well at least not all of them. I want to show you the best thing about my crazy disaster.

Behold. My Target dollar section find.

No, not the Hello Kitty dress up magnet. Although that came from Target too (along with the HK clip and notepad..). The Liquid Measure Equivalents Chart. This thing has become my saving grace in the kitchen. I do a lot of small batch baking. Whether it's only making a dozen cookies instead of the 3 dozen the original recipe yields, or only making a half dozen cupcakes when I'm testing recipes for the fair. I do a lot of math in the kitchen. And this little chart has saved my life, and my baking, so many times. Paired with some clip art charts from a Martha Stewart Living magazine years ago, I've been able to halve, quarter, or double most of the recipes I've made.

After an offhand discussion about baking pan substitutions on Twitter about a month or two ago, I thought to myself, "Maybe we don't all have these handy little charts cluttering up our fridge. Maybe not everybody scours the dollar section at Target each time looking for random things like measurement chart magnets. Maybe I'm the only weirdo that does that. Maybe I should share the wealth." So I made my own chart, just for you guys.

Want to print both? Save some paper and print them together here.
Each PDF chart prints 4"x6" (roughly)(If you have trouble seeing the PDFs, try Internet Explorer. Boyfriend's new version of Firefox was being weird about showing any PDF file, but I don't know if that was a fluke or what.)

So go forth into your kitchens and halve without fear! Or something like that. Enjoy!

The fine print: Feel free to print them out for personal use to your hearts content, but if you're going to swipe them for blog use, please ask first and give some link love. I worked hard to create these.

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Those are great! Very helpful for a fellow baker. I'd show you my pathetic handwritten version that I keep taped on the inside of my cupboards, but it's too embarrassing. Now it will soon be replaced with this much nicer looking version. Thank you so much!!

You ROCK!!! I am always googling conversions mid-recipe. I will print these out ASAP! I keep my lists and things taped to the inside of the cupboard near my stove. Not because my fridge is pristine, mind you, but because it's freaking far away from where I do my measuring. Thanks again!

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The Busty Baker is a newly 30-something retail slave who spends most of her downtime covered in flour in her tiny apartment kitchen, compulsively checking Twitter, and talking to her cat. Someday she'll figure out what she wants to do with her life, but until then, she'll continue to pawn her baked goods off on anyone who will take them.